MEMS technology

Freescale Semiconductor introduced a new micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometer featuring ultra-low power consumption and a simple plug-and-play approach to tilt threshold detection for use in physical tamper protection for smart meter ...

Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidics design and manufacture, has introduced the new Porous Media Chip, which enables statistically representative modeling of complex porous sandstone rock structures. The chip will find application in academic ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—A standards development group is exploring the feasibility of a new interface standard that would enable even multiple degree-of-freedom arrays of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensors to use a simple common interface.

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MEMS business

The microelectronic packaging comprises approximately 50 percent of the cost per device and much R&D has been pumped into more efficient designs utilizing 3-dimensional materials innovations such as through-silicon vias and chip stacking.

The storage capacity of hard disk drives could increase by a factor of five thanks to processes developed by chemists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.
The researchers' technique relies on self-organizing substances known as block copolymers ...

Scientists at Rice and the Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry received a $1.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a hydrogel that can be injected into a patient to form an active biological scaffold.

Now engineers have created a polymer with a combination of skin's most elusive attributes that no polymer had achieved before: This new material, reported in Nature Nanotechnology, can conduct electricity and, when it is sliced open with a razor, can ...

Scientists in Spain have succeeded in eliminating infectious bacteria from medical textiles by using an enzymatic pre-treatment combined with simultaneous deposition of nanoparticles and biopolymers under ultrasonic ...

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Nanotech business

More than a decade ago, while conducting research at the University at Buffalo, Laurent Levy committed himself to a field that other scientists were just starting to understand: nanomedicine, the use of nanotechnology to address biomedical challenges ...

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